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Consolidating the Effects of Waking and Sleep on Motor-Sequence Learning
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Sleep is widely believed to play a critical role in memory consolidation. Sleep-dependent consolidation has been studied extensively in humans using an explicit motor-sequence learning paradigm. In this task, performance has been reported to remain stable across wakefulness and improve significantly after sleep, making motor-sequence learning the definitive example of sleep-dependent enhancement. Recent work, however, has shown that enhancement disappears when the task is modified to reduce task-related inhibition that develops over a training session, thus questioning whether sleep actively consolidates motor learning. Here we use the same motor-sequence task to demonstrate sleep-dependent consolidation for motor-sequence learning and explain the discrepancies in results across studies. We show that when training begins in the morning, motor-sequence performance deteriorates across wakefulness and recovers after sleep, whereas performance remains stable across both sleep and subsequent waking with evening training. This pattern of results challenges an influential model of memory consolidation defined by a time-dependent stabilization phase and a sleep-dependent enhancement phase. Moreover, the present results support a new account of the behavioral effects of waking and sleep on explicit motor-sequence learning that is consistent across a wide range of tasks. These observations indicate that current theories of memory consolidation that have been formulated to explain sleep-dependent performance enhancements are insufficient to explain the range of behavioral changes associated with sleep.
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- Authors
- Brawn, T. P., Fenn, K. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2010-10-20
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- 30
- Issue
- 42
- Pages
- 13977-13982
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- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
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- PMC2978076
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- FWCI
- 6.21
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- journal article
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- en
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- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
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- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH059831, MH059831)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC007206, DC 007206)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- sleep-dependent memory consolidation, motor sequence learning, explicit motor learning, training time of day
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Circadian Rhythm, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Motor Skills, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Serial Learning, Sleep, Wakefulness, Young Adult
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